What’s this project about?

Each year, more than 7,600 people in the UK are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Sadly, the disease is very difficult to treat and survival rates are poor.

Dr Crispin Hiley is a Research Fellow in Professor Nick Lemoine’s lab. The aim of his work is to manipulate viruses to specifically infect and destroy pancreatic cancer cells. His ultimate goal is to develop new treatments to improve the outlook for people with the disease.

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The difference you can make

Pancreatic cancer is the sixth most common cause of cancer death in the UK. The people behind this research are committed to finding new ways to tackle pancreatic cancer.

Please help us raise £20,000 to help fund the laboratory running costs for Dr Crispin Hiley’s pioneering project in Professor Lemoine’s lab for a year.

Increased focus

While we have made real strides in improving the outlook for many types of cancer, progress in pancreatic cancer has been limited and survival rates remain low. Cancer Research UK is committed to boosting research to find new ways of tackling this disease. This pioneering project has the potential to make a significant impact on survival rates for pancreatic cancer in the future.

For more information about pancreatic cancer you can visit the CancerHelp UK website pancreatic cancer pages.

Meet Margaret and Yasmin

Margaret lost her husband to pancreatic cancer last year and now finds that there are lots of new challenges in day-to-day life.

You can hear more about Margaret, her daughter Yasmin, and their life now, as they share some of their special memories in the video above.

Donate now and your support of this innovative research will help beat pancreatic cancer.

Why Support Alan Scott?

My husband died from pancreatic cancer 13 years ago . His grandfather died from the same cancer before I met my husband and my father-in-law died three years ago from the same disease. There was no hope when my husband was diagnosed because the cancer presented too late. More needs to be done to screen those with a family history of the disease on a regular basis so that it can be found and treated before it is too late. My husband left two young sons --11 and 14 --at the time he died and I desperately want there to be a screening process in place for them . They are now 24 and 27 . This type of cancer has been consistently underfunded because of a defeatist attitude. Things are now starting to change but that change cannot be implemented without a massive injection of funding . So please please if you want to support cancer research specify pancreatic cancer as the one area you would most like to support. Many many thanks, Sue Scott